Data map for hst0137.dat
Housing standing committees, 1st - 37th Congress
Date:  Feb. 13, 1998 (data last corrected Apr. 28, 1995)

Var.    Description                             Column(s)
CONG    Congress                                1-2

SESSION Session                                 3
        Note:  Sessions coded "9" indicate
        assignments to committees whose membership
        was designated in the rules to span an
        entire Congress.  All other committee
        assignments were for the particular
        session only.

COMM    Committee                               4-6
        Note:  See below for committee code

ID      ICPSR identification number             7-11

NAME    Name                                    12-36

PTYSTAT Party status                            37
        This variable distinguishes between
        original appointees to committees and
        those appointed during a Congress or
        session to fill a vacancy.  The codes are
        as follows:
                1:  Original appointee
                4:  Additional member (expanded
                    committee roster)
                6:  Replacement

RANK    Rank of member within party status      38-39
        For this data set, this is the order on
        the committee list specified in the
        appointment resolution.

MOA     Month appointed                         40-41

DAA     Day appointed                           42-43

YEA     Year appointed                          44-47
        Note:  The three preceding variables
        together record the date on which the
        member was appointed to the committee.

MOT     Month terminated                        48-49

DAT     Day terminated                          50-51

YET     Year terminated                         52-55
        Note:  The three preceding variables
        together record the dat on which the
        member was termined from the committee.
        This is usually the end of the session,
        unless the member vacated the committee
        assignment before then.

PARTY   Party                                   56-59
        Political party, from Kenneth Martis,
        _Historical Atlas of Political Parties
        in the United States Congress, 1789--1989_.


COMMITTEE CODES:

Code   First Cong.  Last Cong.   Committee
  1         8          37        Accounts
  2        16          37        Agriculture  
 23         3          37        Claims  
 25        16          37        Commerce  
 26         4          15        Commerce and Manufactures  
 31        10          37        District of Columbia  
 45         1          37        Elections  
 49        28          36        Engraving
 50        36          37        Enrolled Bills
 54        37          37        Exp., Interior
 57        14          37        Expend., Navy  
 58        14          37        Expend., P.O.  
 59        14          37        Expend., State  
 60        14          37        Expend., Treasury  
 61        14          37        Expend., War  
 63        14          37        Expend., Public Buildings  
 72        17          37        Foreign Affairs  
102        17          37        Indian Affairs  
111        22          37        Invalid Pensions  
121        13          37        Judiciary
133        36          37        Library
141        16          37        Manufactures  
144        25          37        Mileage  
145        17          37        Military Affairs  
146        19          21        Military Pensions  
147        24          37        Militia  
151        17          37        Naval Affairs
161        36          37        Pacific Railroad
162        25          37        Patents  
164        13          19        Pensions and Revolutionary Claims  
166        10          37        Post Offices and Post Roads
167        36          37        Printing
168        14          37        Private Land Claims  
169        25          37        Public Buildings and Grounds  
170        13          37        Public Expenditures  
171         9          37        Public Lands  
183         4          37        Revisal and Unfinished Business  
185        19          37        Revolutionary Claims  
186        22          37        Revolutionary Pensions  
189        22          37        Roads and Canals  
190        31          37        Rules  
211        19          37        Territories  
242         4          37        Ways and Means  

